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The Prince was born at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital, in Copenhagen, at 10:30 am local time, 26 minutes before his twin sister.[1] At birth, he weighed 2.67 kg (5.8 lb) and measured 47 cm (18.5 ins).[2] He was healthy with an apgar score of 10 (out of 10) after 1 minute. Shortly after the birth, while speaking to the press, the Crown Prince joked about calling his newborn son Elvis, as the twins share a birthday with the "King of Rock and Roll".[3]

At noon on 8 January, a 21-gun salute was fired from the Sixtus Battery at Holmen Naval Base in Copenhagen and from Kronborg Castle in North Zealand to mark the arrival of a royal child.

In 2009, the Danish constitution was altered, granting absolute primogeniture to the Danish throne, meaning that the eldest child, regardless of gender, takes precedence in the line of succession. Under the old system of male-preference primogeniture, Vincent would have displaced his elder sister Isabella in the line of succession; with the new law, he comes directly after her instead. As a descendant of Queen Victoria, the Prince is also in the line of succession to the throne of each of the sixteen Commonwealth Realm, where he does take precedence over Isabella, because those realms followed the custom of male-preference primogeniture at the time of his birth; the subsequent change to absolute primogeniture in the Commonwealth line of succession only affected those in line born after 28 October 2011.

On 15 August 2017, Vincent and his twin sister started school at Tranegårdsskolen in Gentofte – the same public school as their elder siblings.[5]

On 6 January 2020, Prince Vincent along with his siblings began their 12-week study program at Lemania-Verbier International School in Banges, Switzerland. The study abroad opportunity was announced in late 2019 by the Danish Royal Court, who said that Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary wanted to give their children “a common experience in an international environment.”[6]